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### NNTP Protocol Overview

The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is documented in RFC 977. NNTP is a request-reply protocol in the style of SMTP or FTP. Unlike mail, news does not require seperate protocols for user-to-host and host-to-host exchanges. NNTP is used in all cases. NNTP has facilities to support reading newsgroups, posting new articles, and transferring articles between news servers.

Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
NNTP Protocol Overview